January 6 United States Capitol attack

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January 6 United States Capitol attack - 2021 attempt to prevent the U.S. presidential electoral vote count. This event is the 265^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 295^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “January 6 United States Capitol attack” in Simple English Wikipedia has 79.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 64 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 3981^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 295^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3828^th most popular in AI.

The 265^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9611^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2619^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3560^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “January 6 United States Capitol attack” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia and written by 34 authors in all languages (3560^th place).

Since the creation of article “January 6 United States Capitol attack”, its content was written by 40 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3981^st place) and edited by 4009 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3828^th place).

January 6 United States Capitol attack is on the 295^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 265^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 155 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7979 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #27 in January 2021
• Global: #1 in January 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1094 in January 2021
• Global: #19 in January 2021

There are 44 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Sturm auf das Kapitol in Washington 2021		100
2	Japanese (ja) 2021年アメリカ合衆国議会議事堂襲撃事件		98.9117
3	Greek (el) Διαδηλώσεις και εισβολή στο Αμερικανικό Καπιτώλιο (2021)		98.576
4	Korean (ko) 2021년 미국 국회의사당 습격		98.2898
5	Norwegian (no) Stormingen av den amerikanske kongressen 2021		95.6706
6	Hungarian (hu) Az Amerikai Egyesült Államok Capitoliumának ostroma		95
7	English (en) January 6 United States Capitol attack		94.9417
8	Vietnamese (vi) Bạo loạn tại Điện Capitol Hoa Kỳ 2021		94.3581
9	Chinese (zh) 国会山骚乱		93.7731
10	Indonesian (id) Penyerbuan Gedung Kapitol 2021		93.7616

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) January 6 United States Capitol attack		18 305 993
2	German (de) Sturm auf das Kapitol in Washington 2021		952 643
3	Russian (ru) Захват Капитолия США (2021)		650 900
4	French (fr) Assaut du Capitole par des partisans de Donald Trump		494 575
5	Japanese (ja) 2021年アメリカ合衆国議会議事堂襲撃事件		491 435
6	Spanish (es) Asalto al Capitolio de los Estados Unidos de 2021		462 651
7	Chinese (zh) 国会山骚乱		428 650
8	Italian (it) Assalto al Campidoglio degli Stati Uniti d'America del 2021		292 993
9	Polish (pl) Atak na Kapitol Stanów Zjednoczonych		169 825
10	Portuguese (pt) Ataque ao Capitólio dos Estados Unidos em 2021		144 982

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) January 6 United States Capitol attack		216 013
2	Chinese (zh) 国会山骚乱		5 983
3	Spanish (es) Asalto al Capitolio de los Estados Unidos de 2021		5 439
4	German (de) Sturm auf das Kapitol in Washington 2021		5 363
5	Russian (ru) Захват Капитолия США (2021)		4 545
6	Japanese (ja) 2021年アメリカ合衆国議会議事堂襲撃事件		4 114
7	French (fr) Assaut du Capitole par des partisans de Donald Trump		3 373
8	Italian (it) Assalto al Campidoglio degli Stati Uniti d'America del 2021		2 876
9	Polish (pl) Atak na Kapitol Stanów Zjednoczonych		1 633
10	Dutch (nl) Bestorming van het Amerikaanse Capitool in 2021		988

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) January 6 United States Capitol attack		1 938
2	German (de) Sturm auf das Kapitol in Washington 2021		391
3	French (fr) Assaut du Capitole par des partisans de Donald Trump		224
4	Chinese (zh) 国会山骚乱		146
5	Spanish (es) Asalto al Capitolio de los Estados Unidos de 2021		129
6	Russian (ru) Захват Капитолия США (2021)		117
7	Japanese (ja) 2021年アメリカ合衆国議会議事堂襲撃事件		105
8	Italian (it) Assalto al Campidoglio degli Stati Uniti d'America del 2021		94
9	Hebrew (he) ההסתערות על הקפיטול (2021)		76
10	Dutch (nl) Bestorming van het Amerikaanse Capitool in 2021		68

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) January 6 United States Capitol attack		15
2	Greek (el) Διαδηλώσεις και εισβολή στο Αμερικανικό Καπιτώλιο (2021)		4
3	Spanish (es) Asalto al Capitolio de los Estados Unidos de 2021		3
4	Korean (ko) 2021년 미국 국회의사당 습격		2
5	Portuguese (pt) Ataque ao Capitólio dos Estados Unidos em 2021		2
6	Arabic (ar) اقتحام كابيتول الولايات المتحدة 2021		1
7	Belarusian (be) Штурм Капітолія ЗША (2021)		1
8	French (fr) Assaut du Capitole par des partisans de Donald Trump		1
9	Hebrew (he) ההסתערות על הקפיטול (2021)		1
10	Hungarian (hu) Az Amerikai Egyesült Államok Capitoliumának ostroma		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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